the problem is in the 64 bit version, as it does not appear in the 32 bit version I installed (as a test) in the chroot.
Now the questions: should I use the standard debian bug tracking system to report amd64 bugs? I am uncertain, since it is not (yet) an official port. In the meanwhile, the second question: did anybody (try to) install a slave nis server on a pure64 and get it to transfer the nis maps from a debian x86 nis master server? Did anybody actually _succeed_ at it?
Problem description: when I run
/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s <my_master_nis_server>
on the wannabe pure64 nis slave server, I get something like:
Transferring passwd.byuid... Trying ypxfrd ...rpc.ypxfrd doesn't support the needed database type call to rpc.ypxfrd failed: RPC: Can't decode result
(failed, fallback to enumeration)
which is replicated for each and every nis map. The above occurs also each and every time I start the nis server/daemon using the provided /etc/init.d/nis script. If I replicate the configuration in the 32 bit chroot and run the 32 bit ypinit and/or server/daemon, everything runs smoothly.
Any hints, suggestions (apart from abandoning nis, which I would if I could, but I cannot...)
Thanks, bye Giacomo
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